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Trump: "I'm not taking responsibility for any of this. People are acting like I'm a REAL president and a real leader. I'm the same guy who betrayed America in front of the entire world in Helsinki. I'm nothing more than a fraud, who with the help of Putin, managed to con my way into the Oval Office. Plus most people knew I was fundamentally unfit intellectually, morally, temperamentally, emotionally, and psychologically to be president. Someone as mentally unstable and divorced from reality as I clearly am, should have NEVER been allowed anywhere near the White House.
So again, don't blame me, blame the people who were dumb enough to vote for me. Blame republicans in Congress who aided, abetted, and pardoned my crimes. Blame people like Lindsey Graham and Moscow Mitch. They both know exactly who and what I am, but yet they continue to defend me. For crying out loud, Lindsey Graham even stated on fox, that I was in fact, a Krazy, race-baiting bigot. So you see, I'm the same person that I've always been, an irredeemable con-man and a sociopath, but you already knew that."
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Trump Jan. 24, Twitter:.
âChina has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!â
Trump Feb. 7, Twitter:
âJust had a long and very good conversation by phone with President Xi of China. He is strong, sharp and powerfully focused on leading the counterattack on the Coronavirus. He feels they are doing very well, even building hospitals in a matter of only days ⌠Great discipline is taking place in China, as President Xi strongly leads what will be a very successful operation. We are working closely with China to help!
Trump Feb. 7, Remarks before Marine One departure:
"Late last night, I had a very good talk with President Xi, and we talked about â mostly about the coronavirus. They're working really hard, and I think they are doing a very professional job. They're in touch with World â the World â World Organization. CDC also. We're working together. But World Health is working with them. CDC is working with them. I had a great conversation last night with President Xi. It's a tough situation. I think they're doing a very good job.â
Trump Feb. 10, Fox interview:.
"I think China is very, you know, professionally run in the sense that they have everything under control," Trump said. "I really believe they are going to have it under control fairly soon. You know in April, supposedly, it dies with the hotter weather. And that's a beautiful date to look forward to. But China I can tell you is working very hard."
Trump Feb. 10, rally in Manchester, N.H.:
âI spoke with President Xi, and theyâre working very, very hard. And I think itâs all going to work out fine.â
Trump Feb. 23, before boarding Marine One:
"I think President Xi is working very, very hard. I spoke to him. He's working very hard. I think he's doing a very good job. It's a big problem. But President Xi loves his country. He's working very hard to solve the problem, and he will solve the problem. OK?"
Trump Feb. 27, press conference:
âI spoke with President Xi. We had a great talk. Heâs working very hard, I have to say. Heâs working very, very hard. And if you can count on the reports coming out of China, that spread has gone down quite a bit. The infection seems to have gone down over the last two days. As opposed to getting larger, itâs actually gotten smaller.â
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If Trump did nothing wrong as he claims, then why is he blocking people from testifying in the Senate trial, like Mulvaney, Bolton, and his White House counsel John Eisenberg? If he did nothing wrong, then surely these people should be able to testify and prove that he did nothing wrong.
When Lt.Col Vindman twice told a superior of his concerns about Trumpâs efforts to force Ukraine for the investigation in exchange for military aid, the White House lawyer John Eisenberg had the full transcript of Trump's phone call moved to the highly classified White House server, which is usually reserved for code-word level intelligence but not transcripts of diplomatic discussions. Why would the full transcript of Trump's so called "perfect" phone call be hidden? If he did nothing wrong, releasing the full transcript should exonerate him of any wrong doing.
The only logical conclusion is that Trump is guilty, and he knows that releasing the full transcript, and allowing Mulvaney, Bolton and others to testify under oath would be his undoing. Trump knows that after seeing what happened to Manafort, Cohen and Stone, that no one else is going to risk going to prison for his crimes.
Trump's own National Security Adviser, John Bolton quit over Trump's scheme to bribe Ukraine.
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At the Trump International Hotel in Washington, Andriy Yermak, a top adviser to Mr. Zelensky, asks Mr. Volker to connect him to Giuliani. The two men later meet in Madrid.
At a White House meeting later that day in Boltonâs office, two Ukrainian officials press for an Oval Office meeting between Trump and Mr. Zelensky. Sondland blurts out that Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, promised that Mr. Zelensky would be invited if Ukraine announces âinvestigations.â
Bolton immediately halts the meeting. At a follow-up meeting, Sondland again presses the Ukrainians to announce investigations, this time specifying Burisma and the 2016 election as targets. Fiona Hill, one of Boltonâs top deputies, calls that session to a halt.
She and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, her subordinate, report the meetings to John Eisenberg, the chief legal adviser to the National Security Council. Bolton tells Ms. Hill to deliver a message from him: âI am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up.â
The fact that Trump refuses to allow these people to testify is an admission of guilt.
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Trumpâs business interest in communist China is long-standing. He began applying for trademarks there in 2005, and in 2012, the Trump Hotel Collection opened an office in Shanghai, its first in Asia.
Two of the Trump Organizationâs foreign partners â developers in Dubai and Indonesia, each building residential complexes that include a Trump golf course â have announced new partnerships with state-run Chinese companies. On June 10 2018, Dubaiâs Damac Properties announced that the state-run China State Construction Engineering Corp. had been awarded a contract to build roads and infrastructure at the new Akoya Oxygen. Trump will be paid to operate a golf course there, his second in the area, and paid for the use of his name.
In May 2018, Trumpâs partner in Indonesia â MNC Corp. â announced that it had signed a construction contract with another state-run Chinese company, the Metallurgical Corporation of China, for its planned Lido City development. Plans for that project, in a mountainous area of West Java, include a Trump-branded golf resort.
The communist Chinese government granted a total of 41 trademarks to Ivanka by April of 2019. These are trademarks she applied for after her father became president, and the got approved for about 40% faster than those she requested before Trumpâs victory in the 2016 election according to Forbes.
On March 29, 2017, Ivanka became an official government employee, joining Jared as an adviser to her father in the White House. The day before that appointment, Ivanka applied for 17 new trademarks with the communist Chinese government.
Over a span of two months in late 2018, the communist Chinese government granted 18 trademarks to companies linked to Trump and his daughter. In October alone, Chinaâs Trademark Office granted provisional approval for 16 trademarks to Ivanka Trump Marks LLC. The new approvals covered Ivanka-branded fashion gear, including sunglasses, handbags, shoes and jewelry, as well as beauty services and voting machines. In January of 2019, China granted Ivankaâs company preliminary approval for another five trademarks covering wedding dresses, and art valuation services. The applications were filed in 2016 and 2017.
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Trump has repeatedly lied when he claims that nobody could have predicted something like the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. But as usual, Trump's lies are basic, and easily debunked. Government records shows that repeated warnings were issued to the White House and went unheeded.
U.S. intelligence officials with the National Center for Medical Intelligence issued a report in late November warning that a virus was taking root in China. Analysts concluded it could be a "cataclysmic event,â and the report was shared with the White House, the Pentagonâs Joint Staff and the Defense Intelligence Agency. There were multiple briefings about the report throughout December for policymakers, National Security Council, and the White House.
On Dec. 31, China publicly confirmed that dozens of people in Wuhan were being treated for pneumonia-like symptoms. Three days later, on Jan. 3, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said he first learned of the spread of the virus in China at a White House briefing attended by CDC and Prevention director Robert Redfield.
Days after the Jan. 3 briefing in the White House, U.S. intelligence warnings about the threat posed by the virus began appearing in Trump's daily brief. Whether Trump read those is anyone's guess. Either way, his indifference and inaction constitutes a criminal dereliction of duty, and a violation of his oath, to protect and defend this country. Amercan lives have been needlessly lost as a direct consequence of his moral ineptitude and sociopathic behavior, and for that, he must be held accountable.
Meanwhile, Trump's is continuing his mission of gaslighting to oblivion, the feeble and atrophied minds of his cultists, with lies about how great of a job he's doing. While in the real world, America now has more than 400k confirmed cases of COVID-19 infections, and more than 15k deaths. Because of Trump, America has the absolute WORST failed national response to the coronavirus in the world. I sh¥t thee nay.
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Several wealthy Russians were âgranted unusual accessâ to Trump inauguration parties back in January 2017 â and Mueller is seeking to find out why. The tycoons were given âunprecedented access to Trumpâs inner circleââand investigators in special council Robert Muellerâs probe are interested in their attendance at the parties.
Rick Gates was heavily involved in planning the inauguration, with a Yahoo News report in 2016calling him the âshadow chairâ of the event. There have long been serious questions about the money behind Trumpâs inauguration â and where, exactly, it all went. Trumpâs inaugural committee raised an astonishing $106.7 million, double the previous record set by Obamaâs 2009 inaugural. But what they did with it isnât so clear. The chair of GW Bushâs 2nd inauguration, Greg Jenkins, said he was baffled. âTrump had a third of the staff and a quarter of the events that we had, and yet they raise at least twice as much as we did,â he said. âSo thereâs the obvious question: Where did it go? I donât know.â
The inauguration caught law enforcementâs attention back while it was happening. Counterintelligence officials at the FBI were concerned by an unusual presence of politically connected Russians in DC during the event â including some of the exact people who âhad surfaced in the agencyâs investigation of the Trump campaignâs ties to Russia.â
Back in June ABC News reported that Muellerâs investigators wanted to know why several billionaires with âdeep ties to Russiaâ got access to âexclusive, invitation-only receptionsâ during the inauguration.
It is against the law for foreign nationals to donate to a presidential inaugural committee. Mueller is exploring whether wealthy Russians used âstraw donorsâ with American citizenship to steer money into the inauguration. Sometime around March of this year, Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg flew in to a NY on a private plane â and was met there by Muellerâs investigators, who questioned him and searched his electronic devices.
Vekselberg is the owner of the Renova Group, a Russian conglomerate with aluminum and oil interests, and is one of the richest people in Russia. His cousin, Andrew Intrater, an American citizen who runs a US company tied to Vekselbergâs company, donated $250,000. Intrater had also kicked in $35,000 to the Trump Victory Committee.
Vekselberg and Intrater attended Trumpâs inauguration together, and at the January 19 candlelight dinner, they were seated with Trumpâs lawyer, Cohen.. Later that year, that company run by Intrater paid Cohenâs shell company, Essential Consultants LLC, $500,000 â for, they claimed, real estate advice. A 1million inaugural donation came from Leonard Blavatnik, who runs a company called Access Industries. Blavatnik was on the guest list for the January 19 candlelight dinner too.
Blavatnik is a Soviet-born, UK-based billionaire who is a US citizen. He is also partnered with Vekselberg, in Russiaâs aluminum industry. Together, they built the largest aluminum company in Russia by merging with Oleg Deripaskaâs Rusal. Deripaska is also a player in Mueller's investigation â he employed Manafort, and Manafort tried to get in touch with him during 2016.
Alexander Mashkevitch, a Kazakh mining billionaire, was on the guest list for the âcandlelight dinner,â and happens to have been in the Seychelles around the same time as Erik Prince.
And Natalia Veselnitskaya and Rinat Akhmetshin, who attended Don Jrâs infamous Trump Tower meeting, were in town too â they attended an inauguration night party thrown by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), whoâs widely viewed as the biggest supporter of Putinâs regime in Congress.
Several people involved in previous inaugurations were quoted expressing puzzlement over how Trumpâs team could have possibly spent over $100 million for what they got. But if there is anyone who might know where much of the money went, it is Rick Gates, who is now working with Mueller's investigation. So whatever Rick Gates knows, Robert Mueller now knows too.
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Trump and his grifter family are running their criminal enterprise out of the white. That's what the entire Trump administration has been about since the very beginning. It's why Jared and Ivanka were brought into the white house. They aren't working for the country, or the American people, they are working for themselves. They are working to enrich themselves even more. Every move they make is a calculated business move for their own financial gains.
It's not an accident that Trump has been hostile towards America's longtime traditional allies, like Canada, Australia, The UK, and France. It's because financially, those countries don't really have anything to offer Trump and his criminal organization. And it's not an accident that Trump has been so cozy with Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China. Even before he became president, he benefited financially from Saudi, China, and Russia. Many of Trump's products are manufactured in China, and Ivanka has received more than 20 new trademark deals in China since Trump became president.Â
Saudi Arabia bought an entire floor in Trump's Tower, and Saudis have been spending a fortune at Trump's new Hotel in DC. And we already know that Russians and Saudis, both bailed out Trump when he was going bankrupt in the 90s. If it were not for the Saudis and Russians, Trump would not have survived the 90s. What Trump and his family are doing, amounts to nothing more than a smash & grab. All anyone has to do is take a step back and open your eyes, and you'll see that what Trump and his family are doing is happening right in front of our faces.
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Trump: "You've got Guatemalans, Mexicans, ISIS, the Menendez Brothers, the 1990 Detroit Pistons, decepticons, those flyingMonkeys from the Wizard of Oz, Hannibal Lecter, Thanos, and severalBabadooks, all crossing the border illegally. Its scary stuff."đđ
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Removing a duly elected president from office through impeachment is not a coup, and it's certainly not a crime. It is the only legal and Constitution way to remove a president from office.
On Aug. 7, 1974, Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., House Minority Leader John Rhodes, R-Ariz., and Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott, R-Pa., made it clear to Nixon that he faced all-but-certain impeachment, conviction, and removal from office in connection with the Watergate scandal.
Nixon announced his resignation the next day, effective at noon on Aug 9, 1974.
In his 2006 book "Conservatives Without Conscience," former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean wrote that the Capitol Hill trio "traveled to the White House to tell Nixon it was time to resign."
In his 1988 autobiography, Goldwater wrote that after hearing their grim assessment, Nixon "knew beyond any doubt that one way or another his presidency was finished."
The Founding Fathers understanding of bribery was derived from English law, under which bribery was understood as an officeholderâs abuse of the power of an office to obtain a private benefit rather than for the public interest. This definition not only encompasses Trumpâs conductâit practically defines it.
The Founders placed articles of impeachment in the Constitution for the purpose of protecting our democracy. A democracy that Trump clearly has no respect for, and is trying to tear apart.
Article II, Section 4, says the president âshall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
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On Dec 16th 2019, Rudy admitted in an interview with Laura Ingraham, that as Trump's personal lawyer, he became a central figure in US foreign policy in Ukraine, promoting Trump's desire for an investigation into nonexistent Ukrainian election meddling; taking trips to advance a bogus investigation into the Bidens; and, by his own admission, exerting control over US diplomatic staffing in that country to serve the interests of his client.
Rudy admitted he played a leading role in the removal of Marie Yovanovitch, which set the stage for Trump efforts over the summer to bribe Ukraine into investigations of the Bidens for Trumpâs own political gain.
Rudy: âI forced her out because sheâs corrupt,â Giuliani said. I came back with a document that will show unequivocally that she committed perjury when she said that she turned down the visa for Viktor Shokin because of corruption .... thereâs no question that she was acting corruptly in that position, and had to be removed. She should have been fired, if the State Department werenât part of the deep state. I believed that I needed Yovanovitch out of the way,â he said. âShe was going to make the investigations difficult for everybody."
Keep in mind, Rudy is NOT, I repeat NOT, a State Department employee. He has not been appointed by Trump for some sort of special diplomatic role. He has no official title, and he has no security clearance. He is simply serving as Trumpâs personal goon, I mean attorney.
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"Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million,â Trump told a crowd at an Alabama rally on Aug. 21, 2015. âAm I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.â
In 1991, as Trump was teetering on bankruptcy yet AGAIN, and scrambling to raise cash, he sold his 282-foot Trump yacht âPrincessâ to Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin-Talal for $20 million.
Four years later, the prince came to his rescue again, joining other investors in a $325 million deal for Trumpâs money-losing Plaza Hotel....Which eventually went under anyway.
In 2001, Trump sold the entire 45th floor of the Trump World Tower across from the UN for $12 million, the biggest purchase in that building to that point, according to the brokerage site Streeteasy. The buyer: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Since Trump took the oath of office, the Saudi government and lobbying groups for it have been lucrative customers for Trumpâs hotels.
A public relations firm working for the kingdom spent nearly $270,000 on lodging at his Washington hotel through March of last year, according to filings to the Justice Department. A spokesman for the firm told The Wall Street Journal that the Trump hotel payments came as part of a Saudi-backed lobbying campaign against a bill that allowed Americans to sue foreign governments for responsibility in the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
A review of the public record reveals a clear and disturbing pattern: Trump owes much of his business success, and by extension his presidency, to a flow of highly suspicious money from Russia. Over the past three decades, at least 13 people with known or alleged links to Russian mobsters or oligarchs have owned, lived in, and even run criminal activities out of Trump Tower and other Trump properties.
Many used his apartments and casinos to launder untold millions in dirty money. Some ran a worldwide high-stakes gambling ring out of Trump Towerâin a unit directly below one owned by Trump. Others provided Trump with lucrative branding deals that required no investment on his part.
Taken together, the flow of money from Russia provided Trump with a crucial infusion of financing that helped rescue his empire from ruin, burnish his image, and launch his career in television and politics. Trump was 4 billion dollars in debt, and American banks had stopped loaning him money after multiple bankruptcies. Trump was financially ruined until the Russians bailed him out. "They saved his bacon,â says Kenneth McCallion, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Reagan administration who investigated ties between organized crime and Trumpâs developments in the 1980s....
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Trump actually believes he can set a deadline for a pandemic to end. And if that doesn't work, he'll probably take a map and a sharpie, and draw a diagram of the coronavirus heading out to sea. There is no end to this man's pathological ignorance. I swear, ignorance is like a religion to him. I've never seen a human being so confident and devoted in his own stupidity.
Trump should just stop talking all together, because he has never solved a single problem in his entire life. He doesn't solve problems, he only creates problems, or he exacerbates them. Trump himself is a systemic problem for the country, on multiple levels. He portrayed the pandemic as a hoax, and believes he knows more than medical experts in their own fields. To put it mildly, he is a walking talking, living breathing phuck up.
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Trump:
"Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million,â Trump told a crowd at an Alabama rally on Aug. 21, 2015. âAm I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.â
In 1991, as Trump was teetering on bankruptcy yet AGAIN, and scrambling to raise cash, he sold his 282-foot Trump yacht âPrincessâ to Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin-Talal for $20 million.
Four years later, the prince came to his rescue again, joining other investors in a $325 million deal for Trumpâs money-losing Plaza Hotel....Which eventually went under anyway.
In 2001, Trump sold the entire 45th floor of the Trump World Tower across from the UN for $12 million, the biggest purchase in that building to that point, according to the brokerage site Streeteasy. The buyer: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Since Trump took the oath of office, the Saudi government and lobbying groups for it have been lucrative customers for Trumpâs hotels.
A public relations firm working for the kingdom spent nearly $270,000 on lodging at his Washington hotel through March of last year, according to filings to the Justice Department. A spokesman for the firm told The Wall Street Journal that the Trump hotel payments came as part of a Saudi-backed lobbying campaign against a bill that allowed Americans to sue foreign governments for responsibility in the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
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